Return. Use of repetition and political activism in artwork

This work analyzes the relation between two contemporary works and two publications. On the one hand, the series Violencia (1972) by Juan Carlos Romero and the namesake book from 1977, re-edited in 2014; then the series López (2007) by Lucas Di Pascuale, along with the 2019 publication Cartel. The cases work with the compositional devices of quotation and repetition. The reading seeks to account for the historicity in the use of aesthetic procedures, as well as the recurrences of meaning and their variations. From here we raise the question of the validity of compositional procedures, specifically regarding their collective vision and their emancipatory horizons. By considering these materials, the conceptualist strategies from the 1970s are connected with those after the 2000s. In this sense, this reflection includes the temporality of the stabilization of the digital environment and its subsequent tension with fixed media. Between both anchors, the material story proposed by these objects is analyzed.